If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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